I will paedicate and
irrumate
you!
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Below are the blatant lights in a huddled squalor;
Above are futile fires in
freezing
space.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I onward go, I stop,
With hinged knees and steady hand, to dress wounds;
I am firm with each--the pangs are sharp, yet unavoidable;
One turns to me his
appealing
eyes--poor boy!
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Whitman |
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O
wandering
graves!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Does
business
mean, `Die, you -- live, I?
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Then came the fulfilment of the
prophecy
within the brain.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now all are
withered
and grey,
Their beauty has passed away,
Ah!
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Tennyson |
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'Tis therefore
manifest
that primal germs,
Are infinite in any class thou wilt--
From whence is furnished matter for all things.
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Lucretius |
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A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form, _5
It lies on my
abandoned
breast,
And mocks the heart which yet is warm,
With cold and silent rest.
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Shelley |
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At the harbour mouth a sail 5
Glimmers in the morning sun,
And the ripples at her prow
Whiten into
crumbling
foam,
As she forges outward bound
For the teeming foreign ports.
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Sappho |
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As when a wretch (who, conscious of his crime,
Pursued for murder, flies his native clime)
Just gains some frontier, breathless, pale, amazed,
All gaze, all wonder: thus Achilles gazed:
Thus stood the
attendants
stupid with surprise:
All mute, yet seem'd to question with their eyes:
Each look'd on other, none the silence broke,
Till thus at last the kingly suppliant spoke:
"Ah think, thou favour'd of the powers divine!
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Iliad - Pope |
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But tell me, what was the idea that
miscarried?
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Aristophanes |
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Shal
Crueltee
be your governeresse?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It is your blood they shed;
It is your sacred self that they demand,
For one you bore in joy and hope, and planned
Would make
yourself
eternal, now has fled.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Come, let us gather our nets from the shore,
and set our
catamarans
free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
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Troubador Verse |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face,
Till,
checking
his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and opposite sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's wrinkled countenance,
And pledge him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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About five feet just above the top of the turnstile, and crossing
the arch of the foot-path so as to constitute a brace, there extended a
flat iron bar, lying with its breadth horizontally, and forming one of
a series that served to strengthen the
structure
throughout its extent.
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Poe - 5 |
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They reduced to the simplest
standard
their houses, apparel, and food;
and discarded the load of book-learning which Confucianism imposed on
its adherents.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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xv: _Si, Comini, populi
arbitrio
tua c.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_For_ ne had
_perhaps
read_ nad.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet
neither the hurry of actual service, nor the
dissipation
of the camp,
could stifle his genius.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wert thou made to set alight
Such
splendour
of desire in man, and yet,
For a grave's sake, keep all thy beauty null,
And nothing be of good nor help to thy kind?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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See Dionysius Homer's
thoughts
refine, 665
And call new beauties forth from ev'ry line!
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of
surpassing
beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But whoso entereth within this town,
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be,
Disconsolate will wander up and down,
Mid many things unsightly to strange e'e;
For hut and palace show like filthily;
The dingy denizens are reared in dirt;
No personage of high or mean degree
Doth care for
cleanness
of surtout or shirt,
Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwashed, unhurt.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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My lord, I will use them
according
to their desert.
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Shakespeare |
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Ed ecco
piangere
e cantar s'udie
'Labia mea, Domine' per modo
tal, che diletto e doglia parturie.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Inter LXVII, LXVIII unius uersus uacuum spatium est in O,
in ceteris inscriptum est _Ad
Mallium_
(_Malium_ a).
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Latin - Catullus |
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Presently
the Nilghai will appear
shinning
up it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ If his _omelettes_--if his
_fricandeaux_ were inestimable, what
_litterateur_
of that day would not
have given twice as much for an "_Idee de Bon-Bon_" as for all the trash
of "_Idees_" of all the rest of the _savants?
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Poe - 5 |
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50
Nam, mihi quam dederit duplex Amathusia curam,
Scitis, et in quo me corruerit genere,
Cum tantum arderem quantum Trinacria rupes
Lymphaque in Oetaeis Malia Thermopylis,
Maesta neque adsiduo
tabescere
lumina fletu 55
Cessarent tristique imbre madere genae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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]
Ye weepers, the Mourner o'er
mourners
behold!
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Hugo - Poems |
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V
Time was the flattering voice of fame,
His ruffian bravery adored,
And true, his pistol's
faultless
aim
An ace at fifteen paces bored.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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So falls the hour of twilight and of love
With
wizardry
to loose the hearts of men,
And there is nothing more in this great world
Than thou and I, and the blue dome of dusk.
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Sappho |
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The willow leaves
Silverly
stir on the breath of moving water,
Birch-leaves, beyond them, twinkle, and there on the hill,
And the hills beyond again, and the highest hill,
Serrated pines, in the dusk, grow almost black.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
CXXIV
Marvellous
is the battle now and grand,
The Franks there strike, their good brown spears in hand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I am the Spirit,
The permeating life which courseth through
All th' intricate and labyrinthine veins
Of the great vine of Fable, which, outspread
With growth of shadowing leaf and clusters rare,
Reacheth to every corner under Heaven,
Deep-rooted in the living soil of truth:
So that men's hopes and fears take refuge in
The fragrance of its
complicated
glooms
And cool impleached twilights.
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Tennyson |
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Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated our flag at the
mainmast
head.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--See them whirl
About, as
salamanders
frisk and in the brazier curl.
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Hugo - Poems |
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What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch
extended
with unshut
mouth?
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Whitman |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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YOU AND YOU
EDITH WHARTON
November, 1918
TO THE
AMERICAN
PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR
Every one of you won the war--
You and you and you--
Each one knowing what it was for,
And what was his job to do.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O
troubled
reflection in the sea!
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Whitman |
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Newton Crosland_
To his Muse--_Fraser's Magazine_
The Cow--_Toru Dutt_
Mothers--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
To some Birds Flown away--_Mrs.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Slow now and frail, the task too sorely tries,
As a great weight upon a sucker small:
"Who leaps," I said, "too high may midway fall:
Man ill
accomplishes
what Heaven denies.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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]
[Sidenote D: Sir Gawayne
beseeches
the king to let him undertake the blow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nothing - not even old gardens
mirrored
by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the
distance
brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
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Keats - Lamia |
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He chose the field; he saved the second day;
And, honoring here his
glorious
name,
Again his phalanx held victorious sway.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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) appears;
Embraced
his knees, and bathed his hands in tears;
Those direful hands his kisses press'd, embrued
Even with the best, the dearest of his blood!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The last
reluctant
drop of the storm,
Wrung from the roof, is smitten warm
And turned to gold;
For in its veins doth run
The very blood of the bold, unsullied sun!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To you the Cyprus temples
Dare not bar or close the doors;
For you the mighty Danube sends
The
choicest
of its stores.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane |
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Far about,
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies
Most
ravishingly
run, so smooth of curve
That I but seem to see the fluent plain
Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes
Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meet
Big shower-drops.
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Sidney Lanier |
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`So what for o thing and for other, swete,
I shal him so
enchaunten
with my sawes, 1395
That right in hevene his sowle is, shal he mete!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Madam, be still- with
reverence
may I say;
For every word you speak in his behalf
Is slander to your royal dignity.
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Shakespeare |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You're dreaming, Phoebe, or the morning light
Mixing and mingling with the dying night
Makes shapes out of the darkness, and you see
Some dream-remembered
phantasy
maybe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Es ist so elend, in der Fremde schweifen
Und sie werden mich doch
ergreifen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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e
worschip
of god in glorie,
Out of latyn is drawen ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The ageing of his manuscript of the _Vita Burtoni_, to take a further
instance, was
effected
by smearing the middle of it with glue or
varnish.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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120
But no
divinity
may the designs
Elude, or controvert, of Jove supreme.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Come, thou subtle bride of my mellifluous wooing,
Come, thou silver-breasted
moonbeam
of desire!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Little
outcasts
from life's fold,
The grave's hope they may be joined in
By Christ's covenant consoled
For our social contract's grinding.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The Carian
No word return'd: both lovelorn, silent, wan, 770
Into the vallies green
together
went.
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Keats |
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Þā wæs eft hraðe
"gearo gyrn-wræce
Grendeles
mōdor,
2120 "sīðode sorh-full; sunu dēað fornam,
"wīg-hete Wedra.
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Beowulf |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Lower perchance,
With various motion rock'd,
trembles
the soil:
But here, through wind in earth's deep hollow pent,
I know not how, yet never trembled: then
Trembles, when any spirit feels itself
So purified, that it may rise, or move
For rising, and such loud acclaim ensues.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where we, my Friend, to happy [98] days shall rise,
'Till our small share of hardly-paining sighs
(For sighs will ever trouble human breath) 355
Creep hushed into the
tranquil
breast of death.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The poems of
Apollonius
Rhodius, Virgil, Lucan, Camoens, Tasso and
Milton are "literary" epics.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She cannot see the flying seasons roll
In dread succession to the final goal,
And sweep the tribes of men so fast away,
To Stygian
darkness
or eternal day,
With unconcern.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For their task it is
To note in whatsoever place be light,
In what be shadow: whether or no the gleams
Be still the same, and whether the shadow which
Just now was here is that one passing thither,
Or whether the facts be what we said above,
'Tis after all the reasoning of mind
That must decide; nor can our
eyeballs
know
The nature of reality.
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Lucretius |
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Thus fire within, without the cold, cold snow,
Alone, with these my
thoughts
and her bright hair,
Alway and everywhere I bear my ail,
Haply to find some mercy in the eyes
Of unborn nations and far future years,
If so long flourishes our laurel green.
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Petrarch |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet his
despondent
ghost couldn't have sought worse revenge.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
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Petrarch |
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Let not him mourn who best
entitled
was,
Nay, mourn not one: let him exult,
Yea, plant the tree that bears best apples, plant,
And water it with wine, nor watch askance
Whether thy sons or strangers eat the fruit:
Enough that mankind eat and are refreshed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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at here bult of
Bretaygne
kynges
Ay wat3 Arthur ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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net (This book was
produced
from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
project.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lo soul, the
retrospect
brought forward,
The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands,
The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,
To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe,
The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the
Arabs, Portuguese,
The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,
Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,
The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Instanced in
Architecture and Gardening, where all must be adapted to the Genius and
Use of the Place, and the Beauties not forced into it, but
resulting
from
it, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
The wind has
flattened
the yellow mother-wort:
Above it in the distance they see the walls of a house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What subtle indirection and
significance
in you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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